Magnetic Tweezers for the Study of Protein Structure and Function

Min Ju Shon works in the Department of Physics, School of Interdisciplinary Bioscience and Bioengineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea. Tae Jun Yoon is an Assistant Professor jointly appointed in the School of Transdisciplinary Innovations and the School of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Seoul National University, South Korea. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Seoul National University in 2018. From 2019 to 2022, he worked as a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States, followed by a faculty position at Chungnam National University from 2022 to 2024. His research focuses on designing and operating sustainable, energy-efficient separation and reaction processes through the integration of molecular simulations, high-pressure thermodynamics, and in situ property measurement techniques. Since 2014, his work has been published in international journals covering supercritical fluids, molecular simulation, and phase equilibria. He serves on the Early Career Advisory Board of the Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data, has guest-edited special issues of The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, and reviews regularly for leading journals.

• Construction and operation of high-resolution magnetic tape head tweezers for measuring single-protein dynamics under forceMolecular tethering methods for pulling a single membrane proteinMembrane protein folding studies using a robust magnetic tweezer methodMagnetic tweezers in cell mechanicsMagnetic tweezers characterization of the entropic elasticity of intrinsically disordered proteins and peptoidsExploring the Free Energy Landscape of Proteins using Magnetic TweezersUse of a DNA scaffold to measure receptor-ligand dissociation equilibrium constants in a single-molecule competition assay